Description

Eastern Altepa Desert covers the eastern half of Zepwell Island. This sandy desert was once home of the Galkan civilization, but now only the Antican beastmen and a variety of monsters call this desert wasteland home. Adventurers travel through this region en route to Rabao and Quicksand Caves, and they fight upon its numerous dunes to hone their skills in battle.

I just want to thank everyone for all the helpful information, I am whm 32/blm 17 and on my way to try and make it to the desert. You have given me confidence!! I hate Kazham too much aggro so I am going to try and lvl here from now on if possible...(once I reach 28) ty for the info.

I get lots of invites here but they forget about me once I tell them I don't know the way. Mean, eh? I mean what if they never brought anyone who didn't know the way? Eventually this place would die down. So if you need someone who doesn't know the way, just give them directions...please.

EDIT: Also, many times I was asked as WHM so I could have sneaked myself. And when is there a party not willing to help a WHM if it means they can keep leveling? (I'm not talking about one lvl 41+).

Currently dinged 38 last night and figure i let others know some info about this zone. I Duo with Eclipza and this place was hard when we first got here... 1st thing I told him was the Escape routes after getting him a map of the area (maps sold in Raboa): (J-8) is Korrolka Tunnel (the Hook), (K-7) Quicksand Caves (underground) and (I-6) zone to West Altepa (SW corner little hook). When we first got here (32 or 33bst)we ran around and charmed whatever spider we could... wasnt great but we learned the area; but we then stuck to the East wall running north and south. Only thing really there was Spiders + bettles ( 1 Scorp pit but not far enough to not get argo). We then found our favorite spot near the Quicksand Zone, it had spider/beetles/antica... that spot had very little running around and there was a random Party at J-8 NE area where it bottle necks up (dhamel spawn there... no argo area). We did 34-37 there, we leveled up very quick there and chained up to 4.... At 37 mobs scaned at DC with random EM.... so we moved on. Next spot I found while running around solo was near the West Altepa zone (I/5-6).. It has a few spiders (EP), Beetles (DC-T) and Dhamels(T-IT):: Earth Elemental also spawns out there (IT to 37scan)... me and Eclipza tossed 2 EM bettles at it for fun ;p it had stoneskin up and tossed stone 2 at the 1st attackin pet, we <RUN AWAY!> after it casted Stoneaga 2; we knew we had no chance but we wanted ta keep our pets, we ran and released and zoned... Great fun ;p Theres always a party at the West altepa zone, which also has a NPC ta save/signet at...we mostly did bettle vs bettle or T dhamel, but the other pt there limited the beetle population... bettle vs VT-IT dhamel was a risk... most of the time it works out, but they are tricky, cause a few times we release and Dhamel does its HP move and BOOM 200+ hp and you without a pet... Leveling off the Dhamels is like fighting bombs in Gusgen, If they blow up you win, if not its hard... Dhamel berserk is what we PRAY FOR, there HP drops very very quickly; a couple of times we did not Release in time due to that, hehehe HP was droping to quick... Chain 3 ending with IT dhamel that went berserk got us 260+xp ^_^ -------------- http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?95419

Someday by my hands the Antican will be wiped cleaned from Our lands. Join with me brothers and let us take back Our home lands. I ask of the Square-Enix, allow us the Galka to unite and retake our lands. Justice must be served!

I will head your call to fight any and all Antica. Though I may be but a blip on their radar now, I will grow and I will fight until my very name drives fear into their Black Hearts and the site of a Mighty Galka is burned in fear into their collective. Until a ferocious terror is instilled within their evil souls so that none of their filthy race may walk Vana'diel without the fear of DEATH from above.

From the Heavens we shall cometh until our lands are cleansed of this scourge!

Seek me out within the land of Siren. Wear our pearl as a mark for all to see, "We stand united. Tomorrow will be OURS once more If your world is not mine then begin your own movement Brother. Establish your own "PrideoftheGalka" and set forth to spread thine word. Their time is up. OUR TIME IS NOW!!!

Look. I am on Remora server. I would just like to say to any who are on this server reading this, PLEASE people, start using this as an alternative to Garlaige and CN. I have partied here ONE time, so much fun. But one of the guys had to go after 5 minutes and 3 kills later, so we disbanded. Nothing since then. It is so hard to form a party in Jueno with all the Tele shouts going on.

I tele'd in and was aggroed by an ant after the mage had tele'd away, at lvl 32 it killed me, but only cause i couldnt find the damned zone into Rabao. Can anyone tell me where it is exactly? Oh, and no, i didnt get a chance to use silent jug or prism powder =(.

27-30 - Spiders 30-32 - Beetles 32-34 - Dhamels (you can use beetles to do better exp chains 34-37 - Dhamels, and begin transition to goblins 37-40 - Goblins (you can start these at about 35 depending on pt) 40-45 Move to Altepa West and fight beetles at Revelation rock. 45-50 You can move into Quick Sand Caves and begin fighting the tougher beetles there (I have not made it to this point yet, I was told that there are 2 lvls of beetles in the caves).

Oh, and on a side note, you can, at 37-40 pull the Manticore just north of the gobby camp for a good exp chain boost... There is only one, but it spawns every 5-15 mins. And you can also handle the undead that spawn at night pretty easy starting at 35... Ok, they start conning T-VT around 37...

This is a place my ls likes to go to pt, when we can, and have jobs at this lvl, we love to go there, because we tend to get about 1 1/2 lvls an hour. And though it's hard to setup a pt, you don't have to worry about links, if you have a whm high enough with the tele spell, it can replace Escape, and you can pt near the zones pretty easily. There are enough mobs for 3-5 different pts, so it's hard to fill the area... Basically, it's like a fun version of the dunes.

P.S. you only need invis when going near the gobs... Outside of that, all mobs aggro on sound...

Oh, and one last note: the Outpost teleport is lvl 40. So if you reach the point where you can level in Western altepa it is very easy to get to and from there, just alittle expensive (400 if your town owns it, 1600 if they don't).

Unfortunately, there are alot of ppl who just lvl, and don't bother with the exintricities of the game, such as doing outpost runs, or getting the gate crystal, or having an airship pass... However, I really don't like pting with those ppl after Yhoater... Since, I have been both puller and tank (thf and nin) past 40. I have died from links as both jobs. Unfortunately I think I am the only puller that, if past 25, I will pull the mob back to the pt, then take the link away from pt and die, so the rest of the pt doesn't die with me...

No bats, no jetstream. No crawlers linking from 5 miles away... Just nice and easy pulls, and quick and dirty kills:) I love altepa...

If it matters to anyone and to save money/mp; all you really need is to have sneak on. Have yet to be agroed by sight. Well, so long as you avoid the gobbies that are around the outpost areas, and I still havent walked up to one of the manticores yet :)

Yes this is a very good alternative to yuhtunga/yhoator jungles. There is only one problem in Fenrir World...NO ONE is EVER there!! I would love to get out of yhoator as a lv 30 WHM, but i would have to party with a lot of Japanese people at like midnight...i dont speak any japanese so there is really no way to communicate to them. it stinks...

Yes. This is a fine alternative to Yhoator Jungle and Garlaige Citadel at 28-34. Start with spiders and move to beetles. The best place to camp is right at the zone to West Altepa (there's a signet/home point guy there).

To all those who want to no is im on asura server lookin for a dom party om 31rdm/15nin an i no nin isnt a real good sub for rdm I like it an if u dont u can just PL my whm from 1 to 20 so deal with it i spent to freakin weeks in the dunes as nin an im not goin bak till im lvl 40 /t Shua if lookin for party an im there server: Asura Job: 31rm/15nin Please send a reply bak if intrested Thank You

To all those who want to no is im on asura server lookin for a dom party om 31rdm/15nin an i no nin isnt a real good sub for rdm I like it an if u dont u can just PL my whm from 1 to 20 so deal with it i spent to freakin weeks in the dunes as nin an im not goin bak till im lvl 40 /t Shua if lookin for party an im there server: Asura Job: 31rm/15nin Please send a reply bak if intrested Thank You

You should find the gate crystal in Altepa Desert East at the indentation that runs from G-6 to G-7, The entrance to the Korroloka Tunnel is in the small protrusion at J-8 in the Eastern Desert and at the Altepa Desert West at H-4 and one of entrances to the Quicksand Caves is also in the Western Desert at J-9, not sure of the entrance in the eastern desert.

I also ran to the crystal with my lvl 1 war. The sight of the Rapido catuar made me fall of my chair. Fun experience, ran into the are where the crystal was, it was guarded by 3 anticans so i just waited and snuck behind one and got ti then proceeded to clap and do other emotes at the anticans until they made waste of me. x_x

This is by far the best place to lvl from 32-34 i had so much fun. Thats never happened when lvling. Im a 34drk now. Went from 32-34 in 2hrs. We were a Whm/blm, Blm/whm, War/nin, Thf/nin, Mnk/war, Drk/war. We took sand beetles. Battle plan: I would voke power slash thf would sata fast blade (viper when he got it). Then i drain, aspir. Then when war/nin needed to recast i would voke and weapon bash the beetle off him.

One important thing I found out is that the crystal is not as easy to get to as it looks. I think you need to go into a crack farther south (G-10) and go through a tunnel to get to the crack with the crystal in it. I learned that the hard way.